Vintage Halloween postcards transformed into unique jewelry
(don't worry - no master post service cards were harmed inward the process!)
I dearest the modify inward flavor from summertime to fall. By belatedly August/early September our local grocery store already has Halloween candy on display! Is it a flake likewise early on for that? Maybe, but the lure of Halloween is i that I’ve always flora specially charming. I love vintage Halloween items. Decorations, masks, costumes as well as postcards from years past have quite a dissimilar charm than those nosotros come across today.
The nostalgia of yesteryear is apparent inward these vintage collectibles, as well as for many, brings back memories of childhood fun as well as games, costumes as well as trick-or-treating.
Halloween genuinely is a timeless holiday. What other fourth dimension of twelvemonth allows us to live on something we are not, to fully exercise our imagination as well as permit reality to skid away, fifty-fifty if simply for i night?
Halloween Postcards
I i time read somewhere that Halloween collectibles are to a greater extent than desirable than collectibles from whatsoever other holiday, amongst Halloween postcards beingness approximately of the nigh sought afterwards items produce to their rarity. The illustrations as well as color lithography on these cards are beautiful.
Depictions of witches, dark cats, jack’0 lanterns, equally good equally fortune games as well as scenes of children bobbing for apples are mutual designs. I personally am intrigued yesteryear those with anthropomorphic figures; the corn-cob human as well as the grinning pumpkin caput girl, vegetable people amongst grin faces.
It’s amazing to intend that at i fourth dimension (around the belatedly 1800’s as well as on) Halloween postcards were i time equally pop equally Christmas cards!
Be certain to banking concern stand upwards for out my Halloween Postcard Jewelry. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few of them are reversible, amongst a dissimilar vintage Halloween icon on each side. Others characteristic a unmarried icon on i side. Each is really cool!
I’ve been making jewelry from antique as well as vintage postcards for a release of years now, and in my opinion, the Halloween images are the nigh intriguing than those of whatsoever other
holiday. (Aside from Halloween I also brand them amongst Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day
and St. Patrick’s Day postcards) …And don’t worry, no master postcards are harmed inward the process!
What produce you lot think?
Have a neat calendar week & Happy Fall!
Laura
Have a neat calendar week & Happy Fall!
Laura
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